Posts Tagged ‘research’
Mar. 12, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Media Release, News Feed, Science, Health and Technology | Tags: Babies, child psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, health, human nature, infants, Kiley Hamlin, Parenting, Psychology, research, Science
Babies have a dark side under their cute exteriors, according to UBC study that finds infants as young as nine months embrace those who pick on individuals who are different from them.
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Mar. 6, 2013 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories, University News | Tags: award for excellence in research, Celebrate research, Joan Bottorff, research, Stephen Porter
Profs. Joan Bortoff and Stephen Porter share the UBC Okanagan’s Award for Excellence in Research
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Mar. 6, 2013 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories, University News | Tags: Miriam Grant, research, UBC Okanagan
Since 2006, faculty and student research has grown from $8.3-m to $11.6-m
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Feb. 27, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed, Science, Health and Technology, University News | Tags: Addictions, Alan Kingstone, BC Lottery Corporation, community, Dept. of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Gambling, Government of BC, health, medicine, Psychology, research
A $2-million investment from the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) and the Government of B.C. will create a major new Centre for Gambling Research at UBC to advance our understanding of gambling psychology and help reduce problem gambling behaviours.
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Feb. 27, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed, University News | Tags: arts, BC election, business, finance, politics, polls, research, sauder school of business, Strategy and Business Economics Division, Werner Antweiler
UBC’s Sauder School of Business has launched an online prediction market for investors seeking to predict the outcome of B.C.’s May 14 provincial election.
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Feb. 25, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed | Tags: business, conflict, Equality, gender, intercultural understanding, karl aquino, Leah Sheppard, management, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division, Psychology, research, sauder school of business, Social Science, study, women, workplace
A new UBC study suggests troubling perceptions exist when it comes to women involved in disputes at work.
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Feb. 17, 2013 | Filed under: Media Release, Science, Health and Technology | Tags: carbon dioxide, climate change, conservation, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, greenhouse gas emission, john richardson, nature geoscience, ponds, predators, research, streams, sustainability, trisha atwood
University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Jan. 22, 2013 | Filed under: Media Release, Science, Health and Technology | Tags: arthritis, Chris Overall, Faculty of Dentistry, health, inflammatory diseases, research
Scientists trying to create drugs to treat chronic inflammation in diseases like arthritis now have a new culprit known as MMP2. New University of British Columbia research shows that this enzyme works as a master switch to activate inflammatory diseases.
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Dec. 19, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release | Tags: health, next big thing, research, Science, studentlearning, sustainability, UBC experts
From medical maggots to ethical robots, this year’s ten predictions are an eclectic mix of the unusual, unexpected, and hopeful.
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Nov. 1, 2012 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories | Tags: arts, at-risk youth, health, healthcare, research, Social Work, studentlife, young caregivers
When Kai Bighorn was in high school, he spent more time counting pills for his dad than doing “normal teenage things.”
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